Governor Charlie Baker is mulling applications to fill two vacancies on the state's highest court.
Once he nominates candidates and the Governor's Council confirms them, Baker will have selected every justice on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
Outraged that convicted felons can't vote in some states, U.S. Representative Ayanna Pressley is comparing the current situation with government-enforced segregation of blacks in the South between the 1870s and the 1960s.
"This is the new Jim Crow," Pressley tweeted Saturday, October 17.
